Improvement in registering apparatus



E. R. MOFFITT. Registering Apparatus.

No. 222,834. Patented Dec. 23,1879.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE EDWARD It. MOFFITT, OF BOSTON, 'MASSAOIIUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT iN REGISTERING APPARATUS- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,834. dated December 23, 1879; application filed October 27, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD It. MoFFITT, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented anapparatus for registering the number of articles which pass through certain machines, of which the following is a full, clear, concise, and exactdeseription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of the feed-rolls and knife of a couuter-skiving machine with my attachment applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a plan with a portion of the skiving-machine broken away.

My invention is designed, mainly, to number counter-blanks more accurately and at less expense than can be done by the employes now hired for that purpose. In the manufacture of counters it is a matter of considerable importance to keep a correct account ofthe number of blanks. As many thousands are used each day this is a matter of considerable labor, and as cheap help must be employed the counting is rarely accurate.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap, simple, and durable attachment which can easily be applied, and which will register accurately the numberof blanks passed through the machine.

In the drawings I have shown my appara tus, in the best form known to me, applied to a machine for skiving the blanks.

A indicates the frame of the machine; B B", a pair of feed-rolls, and O the knife. The blanks are fed one at atime between the feed-rolls B B, and are carried forward by these rolls against the knife, as will be understood without further description. But shortly after the end of the blank leaves the feed-roll it strikes one of the arms d d, 850., that arm lying across the path of the blank; consequently the arm d is moved out of the way, and its motion actuates the train of registering-wheels F sufficiently to cause the dials to move, and thus the number of blanks fed through can readily be ascertained from the register, the dials being arranged in the well-known way, except that, for convenience, they show pairs instead of single blanks, the numbers used in this business being the number of pairs.

The main feature of my invention consists in the combination of the feed-rolls B B, or other suitable feed, with one or more arms, d cl, and with registering apparatus, the arm lying across the path of the article fed, so that the arm is moved by the travel of the article, and the registering mechanism is actuated by the motion of the arm, this combination of these three elements making a contrivance by which the number of articles passing through the machine is very accurately registered at a trifling expense. It will be clear that these three elements can each be of several forms 5 but for use in registering counter-blanks I have found the form shown in the drawings to answer well; and, moreover, in order to make an attachment readily applied to an existing machine the form of arm shown-that is, one or more arms projecting from a disk or sleeve on the main arbor of the registering device-is the best known to me.

I will now proceed to describe my attachment, which constitutes the second part of my invention.

Upon the disk D are arms or teeth (I d (1 d projecting as shown, and the disk, or other suitable hub, is connected to the main arbor of the registering apparatus F. The arms are so held by a light spring, f, acting on pins 9 g g, that one of the arms is always across the path of the blank as it is moved forward by the feed-rolls; consequently when a blank is passed through the machine it moves the arm (I, (if that arm be across the path of the blank,) and the pin g rides over and depresses spring f until it passes the bend in that spring, when the spring acts against pin 1 and compels it to take the place vacated by pin 1 This arm (1 is compelled to take the place va eated by arm (I, and so on, the spring, in connection with the pins, insuring the proper position of the arm after the passage of each blank. One arm, which is moved away by the blank and actuates arbor f by such motion, and which is pulled or falls back against a sim gle pin, g, or other stop, to be again moved away by the blank, will answer instead of the rotating arms (Z d (l (l and the pins 9 g g but I have found it less desirable than the form shown, especially when the device is designed for application to machines already built.

It will be understood without detailed description that any motion of arm (I, or d, &c., will move the unit-hand one step, two motions moving this hand one number when pairs are registered, and that every complete revolution of the arbor carrying this hand Will move the unit-hand one number, and so on, the first hand showing units, the second tens, third hundreds, and fourth thousands of pairs.

That I claim as my invention is 1. In combination, feed B B, arm (I, lying across the path of and moved by the article fed, and registering apparatus F, actuated by the motion of the arm (I, substantially as described.

2. The registering attachment above described, eonsisting' of one or more arms, (I d, &e., one or more pins, 9 g, &c., spring f, arbor f, and registering apparatus F, adapted for operation by the passage of the blank through the machine to which it is attached,

substantially as set forth.

EDW'ARD It. MOFFITT.

l/Vitnesses:

J. E. lVIAYNADIER, (J. H. SLADE. 

